We are actually in the parish of Marigny - but this chapel served as a chapel of ease for the remote community. A Romanesque church existed here in 1480, and burials are recorded in 1674, but the current church was entirely rebuilt in 1795.

It seems to have been an unhappy event. The work was substandard, and there were various attempts at repairs, but it was eventually abandoned. In use as a farm building for a century or more, it was allowed to decay, until it was rescued in 1990. It took four years to restore it to the state you see it in now, and was rededicated in August 1994, perhaps to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Chalain area.

It measures 13m by 6m, and still resembles the farm building it was for so long. You enter from the west, and find the interior entirely modern; the roof above is of the highest quality. Benches face an angled podium on which a curved brick screen provides a back drop to a little stone altar and a rather startling image of St Renobert.

Another image of the Saint forms a candle-holder at the back of the church, and what appears to be the original font flanks a proud display of photographs of the restoration, from the derelict barn to the rededication Mass.

This is not an important building, and its restoration is an act of of evangelism as much as of preservation. That is why the local community are so proud of it, and why it is always open.

The Chapel of Saint-Renobert is along the lane through the village, which is clearly signposted just to the west of Lac de Chalain from both the D27 and the D39. It is always open.